Walter Benjamin

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Mon Dec 17 20:12:42 PST 2001


----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 7:50 PM Subject: Walter Benjamin


> "Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist
platitudes
> contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois
> profundity." Walter Benjamin. Letter, 7 March 1931.
>
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Golly. Meaning is hierarchical? How could anyone prove that?

Ian



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